MarBEF

Nematode biodiversity data from the North Sea Benthos Survey

Citation

Heip C. 1986: Nematodes from the NSBS. Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands. Metadata available at http://mda.nioo.knaw.nl/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=849. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/849

Contact: Vanaverbeke, Jan

Access data

Archived data

Archived file:

nsbs_VLIZ.mdb

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

All nematode data from the North Sea Benthos Survey (NSBS) were compiled in a smaller dataset. more

The NSBS was carried out in 1986 as an activity of the Benthos Ecology Working Group of ICES. Benthic samples were taken in a standardised way, on a regular grid covering the whole of the North Sea, and analysed by scientists from 10 laboratories. Extensive work was done to standardise taxonomy and identifications across the different laboratories. A total of just over 1 000 species were reported from 235 stations. Most research however was focused on macrobenthos, while only limited research was done for meiobenthos.

Scope

Themes:

Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Biological surveys, Data, Marine Genomics, Meiobenthos, Meiofauna, Nematoda, Nematode, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda

Geographical coverage

ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]

ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -2,5016; MinLat: 51,7492 - MaxLong: 7,9986; MaxLat: 57,9994 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

1986
Not relevant

Taxonomic coverage

Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameters

Chlorophyll
Depth
Granulometric variables
Kurtosis (0.4-900 µm)
Salinity
Skewness (0.4-900 µm)
Sorting coefficient
Tidal stress
Water temperature
Wave stress

Contributors

Ghent University; Faculty of Sciences; Biology Department; Marine Biology Section (MARBIOL), more

Vanaverbeke, Jan

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), more, data creator

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

(Partly) included in:

MANUELA: MANUELA Database, more

Source dataset:

NSBS: North Sea Benthos Survey, more

Dataset status: Completed